[5] The project was funded by core grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation[6][7] and uses a library partnership subsidy model to cover costs.

[8] It has a number of advisory committees, such as the Academic Steering & Advocacy Committee which includes PLOS co-founder Michael Eisen,[1] Quebec-based academic Jean-Claude Guédon, and the Director of Scholarly Communication of the Modern Language Association, Kathleen Fitzpatrick.

[11] Although originally intended to run on Open Journal Systems,[12] in 2017 OLH started development of a new platform, Janeway.

[15] The University of Lincoln, in partnership with the Public Knowledge Project, offered a funded place for an MSc by Research in Computer Science to develop an open-source XML typesetting tool as proposed by the Open Library of Humanities technical roadmap.

[18] In 2021, OLH became part of Birkbeck, University of London, maintaining its nonprofit status while reducing overhead.